- Paperback: 416 pages
- Publisher: W Foulsham & Co Ltd; New edition edition (15 July 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0572032706
- ISBN-13: 978-0572032708
- Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 16.4 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,331,222 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Product Description
A leaning towards extreme skiing means our criteria measure both off-piste, on-piste and back-country. This work features unique European resorts for individual planners who are the fastest-growing part of the market. Pat and Vanessa are a very attractive couple and have enormous good will in the skiing world and media. There is good TV and radio support, and guaranteed ski world promotion for a beautiful-looking book. The pictures and graphics stimulate the need-to-be-there feeling. The authors are photographers themselves but well in with the professionals too. The book is stunning. This is the only European guide to tell you everything you need to know about the snow, on-piste, off-piste, back-country and eating on the mountains. With details on how to get there and how to get around, this work includes the hotels, chalets and restaurants. It includes the apres-ski bar scene and a clubbing guide. This is a unique book by the most influential and knowledgeable people in the industry.
About the Author
Pat is our British freestyle champion and Head Coach of the British Freeski Camps. Vanessa has a First in Psychology and Philosophy and is a qualified Ski Coach.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Having booked two weeks off work in January to hit the slopes, the biggest problem was deciding where to go! This guide's an absolute treasure....it tells you everything you could possibly want to know, rating each resort in terms of accommodation, skill, nightlife and other activities. We've just booked our holiday...it made the decision so much easier, and has made sure we know exactly what to expect!
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
This book is clearly aimed at the fairly advanced freerider/boarder. The descriptions of the pisted areas are very high level (ie they are generally of a similar length to the descripion of the "Park") and similarly the ski school recommendations are all focused on guiding rather than, for example, the best company to take a timid intermdiate up to the next level. In short if you are not a strong freerider there are much more helpful books. However, if you are then why would you need this book anyway? You will probably have been skiing countless times, been to many of the best resorts and had extensive first hand reports of most of the others.
For me interest was limited to looking at some of the photos (there are some excellent action shots) and seeing where I agreed or disagreed with the rankings. Aside from this it is entirely pointless.
I have two other significant gripes:
- the reproduction of one or two of the lift maps was abysmal. Either blurred (eg Cortina) or strangely truncated (St Anton); and
- given the focus of the book, the inclusion of one or two or the resorts in bizarre in the extreme. I have skied in Andorra and although it has much to commend it in terms of cost, given the focus of the book, unless this is the main criteria, there are many excluded resorts in the Alps which have a much stronger claim to be in the top 50. Similarly the inclusion of Swedish and Norwegian resorts would seem to be driven purely by achieving geographic diversity (eg Oppdal only manages a rating higher than 2 out of 5 on the snow reliability criteria)
For me interest was limited to looking at some of the photos (there are some excellent action shots) and seeing where I agreed or disagreed with the rankings. Aside from this it is entirely pointless.
I have two other significant gripes:
- the reproduction of one or two of the lift maps was abysmal. Either blurred (eg Cortina) or strangely truncated (St Anton); and
- given the focus of the book, the inclusion of one or two or the resorts in bizarre in the extreme. I have skied in Andorra and although it has much to commend it in terms of cost, given the focus of the book, unless this is the main criteria, there are many excluded resorts in the Alps which have a much stronger claim to be in the top 50. Similarly the inclusion of Swedish and Norwegian resorts would seem to be driven purely by achieving geographic diversity (eg Oppdal only manages a rating higher than 2 out of 5 on the snow reliability criteria)
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